Jane Adams of Mangowine by Rica Erickson

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some foxing marks on covers.

Booklet about the pioneer homestead Mangowine in the Avon Valley and history of the Adams family.

Jane Adams (1851–1934) played an important role in the development of Nungarin and the Eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia. She was the first woman to settle in the area. After her husband died, she single-handedly cared for her many children and ran the Mangowine Homestead, including the accounts, tending livestock, the kitchen garden, and managing lodgings, as well as maintaining official rainfall records.

She saw the district grow from a few isolated shepherds grazing flocks east of Toodyay to the establishment of a town and a thriving agricultural Road Board with a reliable water scheme and bulk-handling facilities at the railhead in Nungarin.

Booklet produced by the National Trust of Australia (WA), Reprinted from Early Days; Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society: Vol VII - Part VI Perth, 1974